Hidden workspaces are quite pragmatic when it comes to quickly tidying up. A mess that can’t be seen is no mess at all, right?
If you’ve already admitted defeat in the war on Twitter dependency, feel better. You can now send notes to universal memory service Evernote from Twitter. Follow myEN from your account, and you’ll get a message back with a link-up URL. From there, you can direct message myEN for a private, 140-character remembrance, or add @myEN anywhere in a tweet and have it picked up. [via Digital Inspiration]
Windows only: Microsoft Outlook add-in SaveAllAttachments does just what its name implies; it saves all the attachments from selected messages to a folder of your choosing, optionally deleting them from the message.
Firefox with Greasemonkey: User script GReader FavIcon Alerts adds a tiny text over top of the Google Reader icon, to show you at a glance how many unread items you have.
It’s going to be a long wait for the NBN, and even if that eventually makes the Internet faster, there’s still going to be the odd occasion when you can’t get connected We’ve got suggestions for the best uses of time when a disconnection happens.
Google has released an Android 1.5 SDK preview for developers, and it shows off what owners of Android phones (just the G1, of course, for now) can expect to see soon. The best of the goodies includes speed improvements on the camera, browser, and GPS functionality, an on-screen soft keyboard (indicating a no-slide-out-keyboard G2?), a custom dictionary, video recording and playback in MP4 and 3GP formats, updated Webkit browser, and much more. Looks like the iPhone/Android showdown chart will soon need an update. [Gizmodo] .
We posted yesterday about 50 side businesses you can start in spare time, but it’s not always apparent which sideline works best for your time, or career. Marci Alboher offers some advice on that front.
